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After the great success with audiences of last year’s Janáček Brno festival, Brno National Theatre is organizing the 5th year of this prestigious biennial festival dedicated to Leoš Janáček from 7 to 16 October 2016. Festival information will be continually updated.

Newsletter – stay in touch with the festival

The 4th year of the Janáček Brno international theatre and music festival (21. – 29.11.2014), which has just finished, will go down as the most successful one so far with audiences. A total of 7,285 audience members attended the 4th Janáček Brno international festival. The average attendance rate was over 79%. Receipts from festival ticket sales reached a record 2,200,000 crowns (in 2012 receipts totalled 996,563 crowns).

ACCOMMODATION DURING THE FESTIVAL

Tickets for all Janáček Brno 2014 International Festival events are available here

Provisional Programme for the Janáček Brno 2014 International Festival Released

Over nine days (21. – 29. 11. 2014) the festival will present a packed programme, which has now been unveiled. Take a look at the provisional festival programme

Year of the Czech Music

Just as in Czech history, years ending in eight tend to have an almost symbolic significance, in musical history this is true of the number four. The Brno National Theatre was opened in 1884, the life of the composer Bedřich Smetana is bookended by the years 1824 and 1884, Antonín Dvořák died in 1904, Josef Suk was born in 1874, and other composers whose lives are connected with the number four include Kryštof Harant of Polžice and František Václav Míča. However, for the Janáček Brno 2014 festival, the most significant date is the 160th anniversary of his birth.